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Writer Quotes by Wallace Stegner
- Grub Street turns out good things almost as often as Parnassus. For if a writer is hard up enough, if he’s far down enough (down…
- The meeting of writer and reader is an intimate act, and it properly takes place in private.
- Are you a reader? If you aren't a reader, you might as well forget trying to be a writer.
- A writer is an organism that will go on writing even after its heart has been cut out.
- By his very profession, a serious fiction writer is a vendor of the sensuous particulars of life, a perceiver and handler of things. His most…
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